Gypsy Man (Sonny Curtis)

D ...

D D (stab of E at the end)

I'm a [D]gypsy man, on a [C]one-night [D]stand

I'm fit to be [C]loved by [A]you

I'm with a [D]gypsy band, just [C]travelling the [D]land

They'll be leaving in the [C]morning, I'll be leaving [D]too

Things like [G]love don't tie me [F#m]down

I just [Em]spread my love [D]around

Like [G]small change on [F#m]girls I don't [C]know

My baby blues (JJ Cale)

This is a simple throw away 12-bar blues:
Dm Dm Dm Dm
G G Dm Dm
A G Dm Dm

Bassline with the chords is like root-fifth-octave, like this for the chord of Dm (where at 'x' I strum a muted chord or a note):
-------
-------
----7--
---7-x-
5x-----
-------

The solos are Dm pentatonic.

Ride Me High (J.J.Cale)

Well, this tiddy has eluded me... because chordwise there's nothing happening.

I think it's:
Dm ... for forever... then drops down two frets to C for the instrumental break part. At least live versions appear to be like that.

The bass line drives the songs. Sometimes live it's been just D A D A bassline, but other times with a A C walk-up back to D.

Looks like it was played two frets down here in 2004: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZZvgj1iLCE

 

Ain't Love Funny (J.J. Cale)

Intro: D (except a drop to G at the very end)

[D]She brings me flowers from the waterwell
etc....
Aint' love [A]funny that [D]way

This [Bm]woman's touch, [F#]it is too much
Tingles right to the [Bm]bone
Her [Bm]hand's so slight with a [F#]wink in her eyes
Keeps me comin' back [Bm]home

Closer To You (J.J. Cale)

Hi, ...it's been a while!

This little ditty appears to go like this:
Verse: D C D
Chorus: G F G D

[D]Wish I was a stocking clanging to your [C]thigh

Everytime you'd move around I'd view you walking [D]by
etc.
[G]Closer, [F]closer, [G]closer to [D]you

You Got Me On So Bad (J.J.Cale)

Intro: E9 Eb9 D9
[D9]Oh Baby, you got me on so bad

[C#9][A7]I think that you're the wickedest woman that I ever had
[C#9][D9]Sometimes you make me [C#9][D9]feel so complete
[A7]You take away my [G]troubles, [F)put my mind at ease

The quick drops to C#9 vary a bit, so you have to hear for them yourself, I've just notated some of them above.

JJ solo starts off like:

E--------------------------------------

B-6-5~-4-3------------3-5h6-5h6-5~-----

G----------5-2------5------------------

D--------------3-2~--------------------

Wish I Had Me A Dollar (J.J. Cale)

This  simple number only to be found on the multiple disc collections, AFAIK. Like The 3CD Collected or the 2CD Anthology.

This one's a 12-bar blues in D:
DDDD
GGDD
AGDD

Again, most eveident through the V-I bass line.

The solo takes off going back and forth between C and A notes (on the B-string 13th and 10th fret) and then landing on the 12th fret B. So basically I guess you could say the solo is in D mixolydian.

Friday

One of these elusive simple tiddies again...

This is and stays in Dm. The groove is a bit difficult get into (or out of! :D ), maybe. But it's all fretting hand muting and loose strumming hand stuff.

The bass line is: D D D A C. It can be played all on the 5th string, for example: 5th fret D note, open string for A, and 3rd fret for C.

Rose In The Garden

Lovely sweet song this is. Love the piano and the acoustic guitar solo.

The chords spell a simple country progression:

[D]I'll find my way back [G]to the rose in the [D]garden
[D]I'll find my way [A]back to her sweet [D]arms

The solo picks off something like:

-------------------

-----7h8p7---------
---7-------7-4-----
-7-------------7---
-----------------5-
-------------------

which is based around the D chord (A barre shaped one in my tab), or D major pentatonic, if you wish. 

"Mona"

This sweeet track is very simple. 

Just going back and forth between D and A for forever. 

[D]Mona she comes in the [A]morning
[D]She brings me a bottle of [A]wine

The bass track is basically D and A,

with a little a walk up to the note at the end of previous bar:

.D.......A.......D.......A ...etc

----------------------------

-----------(7)--------------

-5-----------(7)-5----------

-------7-5-------------7-5--

The one lead up to D, in brackets, appears less frequently.  

"fate of a fool"

This is yet another Dm-C thang!

[Dm]Spending my life in a cold hard bar room
Drinking that [C]long black whisky [Dm]down

The constant bass is just the basic root-fifth thing:
A:-5---
E:---5- for Dm chord

A:-3---
E:---3- for C chord

Intro:

--------12----12~-----------------
-----------13-----10-13p10-13-10~-
----------------------------------
----10----------------------------
-12-------------------------------
----------------------------------

-----------------10-13-------10-13^-13^--
-13^-13s15-13-15-------13-10-------------
-----------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------

--10----10------------------------------------------
-----13----10~---------------8s10----8--------------
---------------12p10-----12^------10---10--10-------
---------------------12-----------------------12-12-
----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------

-------------------------------
-------------------------------
-------12-10-------------------
-0-12----------12-10--------12-
-------------------12-10-------
-------------------------13----


"My baby and me"

I really like the Rewind album, has that good ol' sound...!

This one's a real country number in the key of D.

Intro: C, B, G, D...

and I think something like this (but on a steel guitar):

-5^7-5s3-------
---------2^3---
---------------


Can you play something [D]easy
Can you play something [A7]low

Can you play something [G]lonely
My baby might [D]know

Can you give us one [G]moment
One memo[D]ry
For it might be the [A7]last dance
For my baby and [D]me [G][D]

"Mississippi river"

This is where it's at! Real JJ groooove! Why nobody has tabbed this yet? Maybe somebody has, too lazy to do a search...

The verse goes Dm-C, Dm-Am, like this:
[Dm]Mississippi River railroad track
Want to go to Memphis [C] my baby [Dm]back
Get me a motorcycle take off tomorrow
If it don't run [Am] get me a car

I use the fifth fret barred Dm (x57765) and play the C xx555x) just by lifting the other fingers, just leaving the one barre finger on board. The Am is at the fifth fret too. So all those three at easy reach, so you can concntrate on the groooooooove, not the changes. Actually I don't play full barre, I have the thumb over the bass strings instead... lazy ol' back porch style fretting... I dig it.

The chorus is:
[G]Walking down the highway
[Dm]Thumbing down the road
[G]Got to get there
[A]How I don't know

For the G there I use the open G5 chord: Gx00033. Where I thumb the two bass strings. You needn't do that, I just find it comfy. Anyway, the way I pick this G for the intro bit is:
-------2---------
---2-----2--------
-----0--------0---
-0---------0------ where the last four notes I might strum as well (two up strums, then a down strum and an upstrum)... and then it's to the D minor chord which I play again up fifth fret. Then the G picking thing and then pounding the fifth fret A major chord to end the progression.

The ending going down the neck, something like this:
Dm - C - Bb - Am (which is 10th fret, 8 fret, 6th fret, 5ft fret)
Gm - Fmaj7 - Gm - C - Dm (third fret, first fret, open, open, open)

(where the latter Gm I fret like this 3x0333. I guess Em7 would work too)

For the ending Dm this "Dm add2" sounds kinda nice:
x02231

No solos this time. Maybe later.

"Lean on me"

This one stays on the Dm7 forever until falling into C for a bar and going back to top... so the C bit is at:
Lean on [C]me, baby [Dm7]child
...or...
Won't bring you [C]down, just lean on [Dm7]me


Solo at 1m34 takes off:

-----------------------------------------
-------10--------------------------------
----10----12-10-12--10----9----10--------
-12--------------------12---12----12-10--
-----------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------

...so that's using the Dm pentatonic, plus the note of 2nd (or call it ninth if you wish).

about the list of songs with no tab available elsewhere

Looks like there are more JJ song tabs on the web than I thought.

With a quick search on the web, I found chords/tabs (some of the chords in the brackets) for:
Cherry (G, C, G, D)
Cloudy Day (C#m, Fm, ... Fm, A, G#, B)
If I had me a rocket (G#, C#, D#)
Out of style ("Katy kool lady") (Am, E, Am, E, Am, G, F, E, E7, Am)
The Problem (Bb, Ab, Eb, Bb, Ab, Bb... Eb, F, Bb, Ab, Eb)
Take our some insurance (D, A, D, G, D... G, D, C, D)
That kind of thing (Gm Bb F Gm ... Bb C Gm D7#9)
You keep me hangin on (C, G, Am, G... F, G, C)
Low down (12 bar blues in G)
Teardrops in my tequila (C,Em,Am7,G, C, F, C... C,F,G,Am...)
Homeless (C, G, Am, F, G... also an Em in there)
Guess I lose (Gm, C, Gm, D7, Gm ... also A#, Gm, A#, D7)

So I won't be tabbing these out either, you can google them if you need them. :)

I will continue with rest of my list (of ~126 released songs), then. And will continue to be as accurate as I can (in one sitting), but will never post complete tabs or sheet to any given song (just chords and intro or similar). So if one fine day somebody decides to compile a book of complete sheet music or tabs of JJ songs, there is still the use/need/market for one. :D

Another simple tune: Boilin pot

Some would claim that all JJ Cale songs are either about pot or about sex. So I guess boiling pot is one of the quinessential JJ songs then? Well, yes I know, it's not about pot, just sex. ...She whispers in my ear...

This simple tune has a some covers on youtube, where you can see how the chords go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fme1l8S_qWY (Dm and C)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftGCOUVpZVg (Am and G)

The original is Dm - C. I think you could say that it is a D dorian progression with chords of i - bVII... if that kinda thing gets you off. :D

I was thinking of tabbing this one, but, well, the venerable misters Poindexter and Steve Chapman have done that already.

I don't know if theirs is correct. The interval bit at 1m20s goes in Dm pentatonic, about like this:

-----------------------------------10-----------------
--------------------------------------13-10-13-10-13'-
-10-12-14--12--10-12-10------10-12--------------------
------------------------12----------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------

--------------10----------------------------------------
-10----10-10~----10----10-------------------------------
----12--------------12------~10-12-10~--12-12'-10-12-12-
--------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------

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------------------------------------------------------
-10~-10-12-10--(10-12-10)-----------------------------
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... and then back to C and "She keep me hot..."